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For sale, my Sierra Designs Light Year CD one person tent + tent footprint.
http://www.sierradesigns.com/p-293-light-year-1.aspx
Mine is a previous version and it tips my kitchen scales at 1.56 kg. Which makes it a very light one-person tent from a well-known tent maker.
The flysheet is mid-blue. The inner is white, a lot of mesh and dark blue floor. The footprint is protective but it also means you can pitch it without the inner and still have a floor.
I've used it for a seven night walking trip and a couple of nights cycle camping. I ended up going lighter still with an Army Surplus bivvy bag, so this tent is now surplus to my requirements.
Mint condition. £45 posted. Or £40 collected from Waterloo or Elephant & Castle.
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Hodges has form.
2007: "Two-wheeled fascism: the trouble with London's cyclists"
2009: Don't Pity the Cyclist
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A reasonable back-up plan for the cash-strapped there-and-back folk is an £8 advance return from Ipswich, which is 20 miles of country lanes from Dunwich. Plenty of trains and less hectic on the platform than Darsham. At that price it's a fixed time for the train, so better to be a little on the later side, though if you're planning to ride back you're going to want to be getting to the beach by 7am or so.
That's my plan anyway. Now need to get some more miles in.
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I'm helping organise the first London edition of Velonotte, a free, mass participation architectural / historical / musical bike ride around the city and east end. Velonotte started life in Moscow and has since taken place in Rome, New York and St Petersburg.
The ride will start at St Pauls at 23.30 on Saturday 23 June. The route goes east and will end with a 20 piece orchestra greeting the dawn as the riders arrive at the London Pleasure Gardens in Docklands.
I'll be anchoring a simultaneous live broadcast from Resonance FM, and all participants will have radio headsets to tune in along the way to short talks at particular locations, soundscapes and music. If you'd like to help out with that - and have some radio or sound design experience - get in touch.
More info on the LFA website: http://www.lfa2012.org/events/view/london-velonotte-2012-99
Here's a film of the Moscow Velonotte VELONOTTE MOSCOW â„–5 on Vimeo
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I visited the at same time and there's an edition of The Bike Show all about it.
Separately, here's a 5 minute audio slide show about how a bag is made.
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I did this yesterday and can definitely recommend it. I think it'll be a regular event. Took me about ten hours to get round.
Audax events like these offer very good value for money. £10 got me a route card (& GPS tracks), two controls with a huge quantity of food & drinks laid on. Cheerful company of about 65 riders and the challenge of riding a little further than I'm used to in a day. And the bonus of waking up this morning as a bonafide Randonneur. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randonneuring
Richard Fairhurst (cycle.travel) has made an atlas of railway lines showing disused ones alongside the existing ones.